News

If your ancestry in the United States stretches back more than 250 years, you may have Native American forbears. A new population genetics study…
Congratulations to Joshua Lewis (Ph.D.), George Gruenhagen (M.S.), and Prerna Jain (M.S.) who were recognized as the 2019 Outstanding Students in…
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Institut Pasteur has received a $2.5 million National…
The cover of the August 2019 issue of the Journal of Proteome Research highlights recent findings in the lab of Facundo Fernandez on detection…
When Earth was a lifeless planet about 4 billion years ago, chemical components came together in tiny molecular chains that would later evolve into…
The July 24, 2019, issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society highlights the atomic structure of a DNA-templated cluster of eight silver…
Rising temperatures in the tundra of the Earth’s northern latitudes could affect microbial communities in ways likely to increase their production of…
Genetically engineered trees that provide fire-resistant lumber for homes. Modified organs that won’t be rejected. Synthetic microbes that monitor…
In the war on antibiotic-resistant bacteria, it's not so much the antibiotics that are making the enemy stronger as it is how they are…
Georgia Tech has named William Ratcliff and Peter Yunker as recipients of the 2019 Sigma Xi Faculty Best Paper Award.Ratcliff was recently promoted…
Joseph “Joe” Lachance is one of three College of Sciences junior faculty to win Georgia Tech’s 2019 CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence…
A collaboration between Georgia Tech and the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology (MPIN) has received a grant of $750,000 over three years from the…
Promising research toward what could become the first simple and accurate test for the early detection of ovarian cancer could be validated – and…
Relationships based on “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” are everywhere in the biological world. The recently established Center for the…
As an organism develops, its endothelial cells organize into complex networks, eventually forming the interior lining of the entire circulatory…
Trying to explain how DNA and RNA evolved to form such neat spirals has been a notorious enigma in science. But a new study suggests the…
Nemo, the adorable clownfish in the movie Finding Nemo, rubs himself all over the anemone he lives in to keep it from stinging and eating…
Call it instinct, but something, perhaps programs in their genes, compels some animals to behave in striking ways. Take boy fish who tirelessly…
Trillions of cubic feet of natural gas is thought to lie in cold storage within Earth’s permafrost and under its oceans. That gas, however, is…
So audacious was Marcus Bray’s experiment that even he feared it would fail.In the system inside cells that translates genetic code into life, he…

Student News

Congratulations to Ujani, a 2nd-year Ph.D. student working with Dr. Joseph Lachance. She was selected for a Graduate Student…
5/05/2023
Congratulations to Paramita Chatterjee from the Gibson lab for receiving one of three $1,000 Technologist Abstract Awards…
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently awarded Georgia Tech Bioinformatics Graduate Program Ph.D. student Breanna…
12/12/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics in the School of…
12/12/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the…
12/12/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
11/11/2022
Kara Keun Lee Defends her thesis:
Genetic, molecular, and environmental effects on survival outcomes and disparities…
11/11/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
6/06/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
6/06/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
7/07/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
4/04/2022
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the…
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of  
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics 
in…
12/12/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics 
in the…
11/11/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics 
in the…
11/11/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics 
in the…
8/08/2021
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics
in the School of…
11/11/2021
Congratulations to Tomáš Brůna (PhD), Penghao Xu (PhD), and Sreenath Srikrishnan (MS), who were recognized as the 2022…
9/09/2022
Congratulations to Bioinformatics doctoral student Harris Jeong, who was selected for this year's O'Hara fellowship.
Calvin Runnels, advisee of Bioinformatics professor Loren Williams, studies the origins of life.